We had a leak in our irrigation system, so called Agape Company to come out and fix it. (the actual company that performed the work was Greenway Irrigation, which appears to be one of their subsidiaries).
As you read this review, bare in mind they charge by the hour. The first technician comes out and spends 3 hours to assess the situation. Turns out, my backflow wasn't completely turned on, and once he turned the valve completely the leak stopped. 3 hours to find that problem!
But then we had another leak as soon as he left. A different technician comes out few days later, having no clue what the problem is, and tells us he need to reassess the situation. We obviously raise a concern. So he finally speaks with the owner, Brent Droege, speaks to the first technician, and fixes the problem in half an hour. He tells me the irrigation pipe was clogged with mulch and trash and that once he cleared that everything worked fine. Then he adds, and I quote " I don't know why the Oscar (first technician) spent that much time". Hmm... that is not something you want to hear from a technician of SAME company. He spends another hour and a half or so making sure there is no more problem, which I understand. Then he finally tells us, everything is good to go and that all problems are fixed.
Few days later, we see the first technician working again on our lawn, completely unannounced. We ask him, what is going on? And he tells us there are couple more leaks. At this time, I really started getting frustrated. He calls the owner, and while he is talking to him, I ask to talk to him directly. Brent refused to talk to us, because he was "too busy".... WHILE on the phone with his technician!
So I tell the technician to stop all work and leave. Then I proceed to write him an email explaining the situation, and asking for an explanation.
The following are some of the quotes from my email exchanges with Brent:
We do have a little bit of a language barrier that we are trying to work through (as my guys are not native english speakers and I assume your family is not as well)" - whether we are native speaker or not, how is this relevant???
"All I know is the system is fixed at about 50% less then budget, and on time. I don't see what the issue is." - His technician told us he doesn't understand why it took the first technician so long to figure out the problem! Wouldn't everyone question the validity of the quote at this point? Very easy over quote and later tell someone we came under budget. But is that the right thing to do?
"You guys starting having a panic attack as soon as I sent a different tech over the first time." - no... we raised concern when the second technician told us he need to reassess the situation because he doesn't know what is going on, and you guys are charging by the hour!
"I do not believe your version of the story, no" - I mean you are to believe what you want to believe but if you think your customer spends time to write multiple emails raising concerns and you completely dismiss them, that is quite a customer service!
"All I will say is that if you guys had just stayed inside and let us do our job, your system would be working 100% right now" - so we hire you and pay you, but we should just shut our mouth, close our eyes and pay you whatever you charge me...
"And honestly, we do 7.5M a year in revenue, so I'm not even this focused on this discussion" - I never asked and I honestly don't care. The only thing I care is the job I hired you guys to do for me, and how rude and insulting you are to us.
"Do you want us to come finish off everything or not? I will cap the 'final' repair to $100 and I can get it done today" - At this point, do you really think I want you guys to continue working in my lawn???
Needless to say, they will NOT finish work at my place. And I will note that I did pay the bills, because (1) I do not want to be associated with this company anymore then I already have, and (2) so that they cannot discredit my story saying we just don't want to pay the bill. read more